Hello! I'm Grace, mom of two girls & wife to an awesome man, living in the USA and I want to get serious with this making money online business!! I want to make some real steady income so I can financially contribute to my family. I've created two online shops of handmade products before I joined WA, but I want to create something else that is less time/labor intensive and create a passive income. I feel I'm at the right place as I'm finally learning what I should be learning and not getting sucked into all those online scams that don't offer real learning content.

I have set some goals when I started here and I hope I can achieve them in due time. I'm so excited to be here and can see that with all the support/training here, I don't think I can lose! Success is right there in front of me, I just have to go out and GRAB IT! :)

Hi Little mama,
I just read your blog post about earning money. It was great!
I followed you.
You definitely know how to do the business. I too, am going to promote WA. I would like to ask you for help if I get stuck. I promise I won't bug you all the time.
Thank you,
Lonny

No worries Lonny, you can ask away. :) Welcome to WA and I hope you like it so far! There's much to learn here so take your time and absorb everything. Best wishes to you and good luck in your online business!

I just wanted to stop by and check out your awesome page and thought it would be great to add you to my network. If you could like and re follow me that would be so awesome. I am always looking for more like minded people to network with.

Thanks for following me Littlemama! I appreciate you. You say in your profile that you have two online shops of handmade products.Are your online shops prosperous or just so-so? The reason I ask is that I crochet, and would love to build a website on just my crocheted items. I am not looking to make a fortune with it, just some extra cash here and there. What are your thoughts?

Hi John, thanks for connecting with me too. I've already closed one of them and trying to phase the other one out as soon as my blog starts making consistent money. With online shops, you are always promoting it, blogs on the other hand, the sales come to you. So you can build a crochet shop and have a blog on it for traffic, that's the only way to get around that. I just found it was too much work for little return but also, I've never been a sewer and the second shop I have to sew. I don't want to sew forever so I want to build an affiliate marketing business instead so I can earn passive income. Hope this helps. :)

I just took a look, you probably don't know but you're not allowed to put your own blog links in the WA blogs or anywhere to promote your links. The only place to put them is in the comment thread here to ask for comments: Need website comments? the give and take comment thread And in your profile under links section, and tell people to go there if they want the link to your site.

Hello Grace, Many thanks for following me. It seems your reasons for doing this business and mine are rather similar. I have been listening to people who know what they are talking about and it seems residual income is the answer. So let's stay in touch and bounce some ideas around.
Cheers
Peter

Hello Grace, I have just been reading your profile and it is great that you are moving forward quickly and are accomplishing your goals here at Wealthy Affiliate! I like the fact that you say that success is right in front of you and you are going to grab it, a great mindset to have! I look forward to reading your blog posts and networking with you and wish you every success in your business ventures.

Hello Grace. Welcome to WA . Nice meeting you here. Hope WA is serving you well. It's definitely the place to be to build a real, honest, online business. Stay focused, be patient and the sky is the limit with WA. Thanks for following me, I'm now following you back.

Hi Grace! I hope you are enjoying yourself here at WA. It's an amazing community and I am so happy to be a part of it. It sounds like you have a clear idea of what you want and how you're going to get it. That's great!

Hello Grace. I have just read your profile and you are absolutely right - handmade articles are very time consuming and labour intensive and people are simply not willing to pay enough. But you seem to be well on the way to success here.

hello,little mama,grace.i followed you when i first joined and notice you all the time contributing.to have over 1000 friends is just awesome.you're on target to be an ambassador!.I'm learning like many others,and also feel that i'm in the right place,after much stress.spending money for no return is depressing,but luckily i'm now here and WILL have a bright future.keep it up

Hey, Grace, I just wanted you to know that I took the link out of my trainer at How many would watch this training? thank you for pointing this out to me and I apologize for any misunderstanding. I guess things can come out or hit you wrong when typed read and not heard.

Hey there Grace in Arizona, nice to hear from you. I look forward to getting to know you my new WA friend.

What handmade products are you doing. I love all things handmade and often do weekend courses in things like fused glass, felting, basket weaving and so on and so on!

Work hard, have some fun and don’t forget to ask questions.

A very nice boss once told me, ‘Helen, when you ask a silly question everyone else breathes a collective sigh of relief because they don’t have to!’ And that is so true. No question is silly so ask away.

It's been crazy, I had a 25 point jump! So what helps is greeting new members. On your profile page, after your description, there are New Members that show there, if you follow and give them a welcome message, that kind of activity helps a lot, plus being in Live Chat. Another one is creating content.

These are all things I did while you also added likes & comments to my content, so if you continue with my suggestions, you can easily pass your to Top 200. :)

In the meanwhile, I'll go through your blogs and do the same to you. :)

Dear Grace, welcome to our WA community, you're on the right place to start an online business! Thanks for sharing and for adding me to your WA network, most appreciated. Seems you're doing very well, so keep on track and let's stay in touch.

I've been actually thinking about this recently, allowing people to buy my patterns, that would be a great way to scale my business. I've tried scaling through other ways to get help to make the dolls but it's either a very large investment or it's way too expensive. Making digital products is the way to go!

Hi Grace, I'm Jacob, I talked to you in the live chat one time asking you how to merge pages and categories together and enable pages to allow comments, whats the best way to go about doing that again and what would be a good theme to support that feature?

To enable Pages to allow comments - Pages All, press "quick edit" on the page you want comments on, then in the drop down menu to the right, you'll see a box labeled "Allow Comments" - check this box. If you've done that and you still don't see the comments box, then check all your theme settings.

As for your menu, first you add the Page you want to the menu, under Appearance > Menus. Then add the Post Category of the blog post you want under this page, but instead of putting the category just underneath that Page, you have to move it slightly to the right (see attached).

Hi Grace!
Thank you very much for following me and welcome to the WA community! Be sure to follow all the training that is available on this site and don't be afraid to ask questions. The people in the WA community, myself included, are happy to help you. Best of luck to you in your endeavors.
Regards,
Shawn - Yearly Premium Member

P.S. If you get a chance check out how the training helped me to build my websites. My latest one on how to boost your retirement income just went live a month ago and the one on sleep apnea has been up for almost four months now. You can find the links on my profile page. Any feedback or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my sites Grace! I just had my first sale about a month ago on my sleep apnea site and I just had my second referral from my retirement income site (I believe), so it's slow going, but at least it's starting.
Regards,
Shawn

Grace, I see you are making some good progress through the Affiliate Bootcamp. Just wanted to pop by and see if you need a hand with anything?

I also wanted to mention the success rates of Bootcamp. Absolutely everyone that has taken action on all of the phases of Bootcamp has a business that is generating consistent income online. MANY of these folks are going to be at our super affiliate conference next year.

I want this to be you and I want you to succeed with your promotions. So, please promise me that if you ever need a hand or feel stuck as you move forward, that you will get in touch with me!

Trust me, I know things can be a little overwhelming sometimes and I don't want you feeling like that.

Hi Kyle, Thanks for checking in. Trying to go through Certification first, or should I just finish Bootcamp first? Now I'm not sure... which route is faster to start making affiliate sales with WA? My site is about making money online so I talk about various topics around that but also refer people to WA at the end of my articles.

If you want to promote WA and work within the "make money niche", go through the Affiliate Bootcamp training. If you want to build a business within another niche, head through the Get Started Here training.

Focus on just one though. You are going to be much more successful if you focus on one business/website versus trying to do too many things at once. You can always diversify down the road.

I hope you're enjoying WA and having fun building your business! Let me know if you need help with anything!

Would you mind helping me grow my youtube channel by subscribing to it? (here : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpVZPdYPkw47GLBKf6wCIAA ) I would really appreciate it and will return the favor or +1 your posts on social networks if you like!
You don't have to of course, no offense taken if you don't ;)

Hello Grace and welcome to wealthy affiliate.
You are probably thinking that internet marketing could be a steep steep learning curve.
Can I suggest you browse some of the 200+ blogs I have published within WA.
Thank you for the follow as well and I will follow you.
Remember, if you get stuck you ask ok.
Enjoy your day.
Robert Allan

Hello Grace,♫Welcome! Nice to meet you ツ I wish you a lot of learning pleasure and fun on WA. Thank you for following me.

From the start, I have written training for every issue I had problems with myself. I also made a list of 1001 niche ideas, a checklist with 25 points to go through before you publish a post, 101 blogging ideas when you get stuck and an A-Z WA dictionary. I just love lists:) It has been very helpful to a lot of people. I have listed them in one blog you can find on my profile. It's the first website link on the right (click on my picture to get there). I hope to help you with those.

If you have any questions, please add a comment to this message or leave them on my profile.
Success building your business in 2016. See you around, Greetings Loes

Wow Loes!! You've created a lot of training material that I can't wait to dive into!! Thank you so much for letting me know! I'm totally eager to learn and willing to take my time to do as the lessons say. I can't wait to keep moving forward on my website!

Hello Mahir! Thank you so much for the warm wishes! I believe I will be following your footsteps and take each lesson to heart! I can't wait to do all the tasks in each lesson. It's just taking me a bit longer to write the content for those first 3 theme topics! lol I spent ALL DAY today just on the first topic, yikes! I hope the other two will be quicker! :)

Anyway, I love it here already so thank you and I certainly will ask for help when I need it!

Great job on going Premium! I'm glad you decided to take that next big step because now you have access to all the great training and tools and my most favorite, the live chat. If you ever need help with anything please feel free to let me know. Take care and good luck to you here at WA.

Thank you Jaime for the encouraging message! One thing for sure I know being around for a few days is I can ask questions anytime and get answers almost instantly! :) What a great community and I can't wait to continue my training here!

Hi Grace, Welcome to the WA community. This is certainly the place to work your way up the ladder to eventually grow a passive income online. You have great goals that need commitment, determination and perseverance. By going premium, you will have complete access to all the available trainings and tutorials and also the rich community support behind. Most importantly, you can also PM our founders, Kyle and Carson for personal advice. I am sure you are aware that if you take up premium membership within 7 days of joining, you will get a huge discount of 59% and pays only US$19.00 for the first month. Take action before the offers expiry. [Kelsey]

Hi Grace,
Welcome to Wealthy Affiliate, let me say right off the bat you will hit all of your goals. It is so good to see someone who knows the direction they're travelling in. Your goals are realistic, time orientated, clear and very achievable.

Congratulations on writing them down and making them available for all to see. These figures will inspire others. Well Done.

I wish you well on your WA journey and have followed to see your progress. Drop by any time I'll be happy to help you where I can.

Thank you Age for your kind and encouraging message! I'm glad you said my goals are realistic cuz sometimes I'm not sure and may be over my head with the goals. However, I'm really determined to reach them so I hope I will and inspire others to do so. How have your experience been here at WA? Have you two reached online success? Would love to hear about it!

I love it here at WA... You guys have built an amazing training program, I see so much I can do here and be supported all the way. I'm definitely upgrading probably tomorrow. I was trying to find success stories on here... and last night I found a very good one (DomW).. so I'm more sure about signing on as premium. :)

I had asked you about moving my sites to WA, but because the process sounds complicated and manual... is it fine to leave them where I have them and still be okay? I just don't have that one plug-in that comes with the sites here, Exclude Pages from Navigation, how can I get that installed on my sites? I looked it up in the plug-ins search and couldn't find it.

Maybe I'll move them over one day when I'm more confident about how to move them so I can kill that HostGator expense. It's just that I have two online shops on there and now this new blog for this project at WA, I feel it's too risky for me to move away from HostGator at this point.

I'll be sure to ask you for help whenever I need it... This one aspect that I can ask you for any help is very comforting and encouraging!

Yeah, most definitely. You can leave your website where they are at now and down the road if you want to take on a transfer you can do so then. We have a transfer platform that is going to be rolled out pretty soon as well at which point you will be able to quite easily move from HG to WA (and we offer a far superior hosting platform here).

Don't worry about Exclude pages either, you don't need that at the moment. You can find this within the Plugins tab and do a simple search for it if you want to install it on your existing wordpress sites. :)

Wonderful to have you here at WA Grace, you are going to love your journey ahead.

That's wonderful to know you're working on a more automated service to transfer sites!! I'm definitely will wait for that now, thanks for letting me know. :) And yes, I'm excited to see where WA will take me and can't wait to see when I'll start making money online! :)

Yeah, we most definitely are. It is very tough technology to make seamless and we want to do it right. With so many different hosts out there running different technology, different processes, etc, we have had to do lots of testing on this platform to get it right. Should be available in this fall!

Yeah, it can happen. We have 100's of servers here and there can be technical glitches, facebook can go down for 15 minutes at a time, even Google has glitches. It can happen and it happens on occasion, but definitely is not a regular occurance.

You have awesome goals Grace, and I can see you're good at being organized. That will certainly help you in your endeavors. I think you can achieve anything you put your mind to, especially with this awesome community backing you!

Welcome to WA Grace. You are in the best community you could find for internet marketing.

If I could offer one suggestion, it is to follow the plan set forth with "get started here." Stick to it at all costs. I made the critical error of thinking I could skip around and pick and chose the courses, lessons and boot camp that I "thought" I needed to learn. That was a huge mistake and resulted in my deleting four websites and starting over from scratch. WA rankings are not why you are here; it is to develop a business which will change your life. Again, I base this suggestion on my (sad) attempt to short circuit the system designed by Kyle and Carson.

PS - One more thought. Try to avoid the very addicting temptation to view this site as an email exchange similar to Facebook. It will raise your rank (as you can see by my ranking) but it will NOT help you reach your goal of becoming a self-employed, do what you love, entrepreneur.

Sorry for the diatribe but I hope my mistakes might help you avoid the same.

Thank you Steve for your lovely message and your tips. I wasn't trying to just get a high WA Ranking, I was just trying to follow people ranked high to learn from and looks like it worked since you gave me very good advice. :) I'm definitely not skipping any steps even though I already know some of the stuff taught in the Get Started Here. I'm at Course 1, Lesson 8... When I finish course 1, will there be course 2 or will I have to upgrade to premium membership to get it?

Thanks for connecting! Look forward to working with you and lots others on here!
Grace

Sorry I missed this message about niches... I'm good and have at least a couple in mind to start with but I will start with one and build it to a point that it's generating money, then start a second one, and so forth. Thanks for your message!

Anything is possible, all you need is the right mindset, the knowledge on how to do it, the energy to do it, and as the NIKE commercial says then, Just Do It!!! Good luck to you and I want to wish you the very best in all of your business endeavors here with Wealthy Affiliate.

Thanks Harold for your message! Very encouraging and I do have a JUST DO IT attitude as I've tried doing this before and didn't make much but I feel with the right teachers, I can move forward and really make money online.

Since you've been a member for almost a year, have you met your goals? May I ask how much you earn online nowadays?

Not a problem. Yes I've been a member nearly a year now, but like many I was pretty skeptical at first. You see, I signed up before doing any research and there was also some procrastination as well. My journey actually began when I became a Premium member only 11 days ago.... I've accomplished one goal so far. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but in theory, you can make lots of money if you apply the knowledge here properly.
Oh and continue to ask questions, it always helps to do so.

Thanks for your honesty Harold, appreciate it. I could see why people procrastinate, I've done it myself... so you have to have that burning desire inside you to get anything done and be motivated. Nothing in the external can do that for you until you want it yourself on the inside. I'm hoping that's what I have now, and will make this online business work out once and for all!! :)

Grace, I recommend writing down your goals (if you haven't done it already) in regards to what you would like to achieve here in Wealthy Affiliate. Then you can go back to see if you're still on track. Always move forward and write about your successes and failures and learn from them as you continue to accomplish your goals. But I think you got the right motivation, so go forward and conquer.... LOL!!!